When Zou Yun was five years old, he was still very unsociable and always played alone.

He was dressed in a well-fitting robe, playing with flowers, playing with leaves, and playing with ants alone. Sometimes I watched other children play games from a distance.

His father once thought that the other children had isolated him, and feared that he would be alone, so he asked the housekeeper's children to play with him, but within a day the housekeeper's children came crying.

The housekeeper's child is only six years old, with a handful of snot and tears, and he can't speak clearly: "The young master doesn't play with me... The young master didn't speak, so I stayed aside, and then the young master said... It is the stool that stands still and does not speak... Let me be a stool... I hurt..."

Father Zou had to sigh.

Zou Yun stood under the tree, small, skin as white as snow, eyes unblinking, like a white cat, exuding an ominous aura.

He spends his days playing in the yard, and no one knows what he's playing.

Until one day he saw another boy slightly older than him in the yard, and the boy was squatting in front of Peony and poking the mud with a small stick.

"What are you doing?"

When the boy heard someone's voice, his little body shook for a moment, and he was startled!

He looked back and saw Zou Yun.

He looked at a boy younger than him, and he looked innocent and harmless, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: "I'm just playing with mud here, and my mother is talking to my father in it, letting me play by myself, saying that children can't listen to adults." ”

Zou Yun suddenly laughed and asked, "Who is your father?" ”

The boy replied, "Daddy... Dad is the owner of this house, and Mom brought me to recognize him. ”

Zou Yun: "My father is also the owner of this house, does this house have two owners?" ”

The boy was stunned, looked at Zou Yun, opened his round eyes and asked, "Are you Zou Yun?" ”

Zou Yun nodded.

The boy suddenly became frightened and whispered, "My name is Zou Cheng, and my mother said that I am your brother..."

Zou Yun tilted his head to look at him: "Brother? He suddenly laughed: "My brother is the one next door who always takes his younger brother to play, is that the elder brother?" ”

Zou Cheng thought for a moment, then nodded vigorously.

Zou Yun's smile widened, looking innocent and harmless. He opened his mouth and said: "The elder brother of the Yi family is amazing, you have to be like him and take me to play." ”

"I want to catch that little birdie." Zou Yun looked at Zou Cheng and said, "Brother help me take it down." ”

Zou Cheng looked up and saw that the little bird was chirping in the treetops, and the tree was so tall and tall.

He took a step back and looked at Zou Yun with a pulled face: "The tree is so tall..."

Zou Yun squinted at Zou Cheng, like an arrogant cat, and slowly spoke: "The elder brother of the Yi family is amazing, why can he take it, but you can't?" You can't be my brother, right? ”

Zou Cheng looked up at the tall tree, plucked up the courage and began to climb the tree, he stumbled, trembling and holding the trunk, just holding the bird's nest, before he had time to be happy, he fell from the tree.

In fact, this tree is not tall, but it hurts for a six-year-old child to fall, but he still carefully holds the bird, holding back his tears and not crying, because this place is very raw, and the younger brother he met for the first time is next to him, and he must not cry as an elder brother.

Zou Yun looked down at Zou Cheng who fell to the ground, watched Zou Cheng get up with difficulty, held the bird and smirked to him, he stared at the bird for only three seconds before turning his eyes away, and said slowly: "What, it turns out that the bird is like this, it's not interesting at all." ”

Ignoring Zou Cheng, who was covered in mud, he walked away, and said as he walked: "The birds in the sky must be different..."

Before he reached the main hall, he saw his mother pick him up, stuff him into the car, and step on the accelerator and go out of the yard.

Behind him, his father's angry voice came: "You go! If you have the ability to leave, don't come back—"

"Mom, where are we going?" Zou Yun tilted his head and asked.

Mother pursed her lips and didn't plan to speak, but seeing that Zou Yun was still looking at her, she suppressed her anger and barely made her face look gentler: "Mom will take you back to your grandfather's house, your grandfather's house is more fun than your father's." ”

Zou Yun looked at her mother and looked forward to it.

Grandfather's house is very far away, Zou Yun is still wearing the well-fitting Chinese-style robe at home, the plain robe is stained with mud and water in the rugged mountain road, the corners are dirty, the small cloth shoes have been dyed gray, and the cheeks are constantly sweating, and his mother looked at him a little distressed, and coaxed: "Mom carries Yunzi, is Yunzi tired?" ”

Zou Yun looked at her mother for a moment before she opened her hands: "Mother's back." ”

He clinged to his mother's neck, crouched on his back, and kept looking ahead with unblinking eyes.

His mother really didn't lie to him, his grandfather's house was much more interesting than his father's house, and the surrounding scenery had never been seen.

He wanted to go out and play, but his grandfather's eyes were staring at him like he was out of nowhere, and his grandfather's wrinkles were so wrinkled that they could almost kill flies, but those eyes were surprisingly bright.

He hid behind the door and watched his grandfather talk to his mother through the cracks.

"You'll take him back in a few days! You shouldn't have brought him! Why did you come back when you're already out? I really gave birth to a child! You know you can't have children... You had the audacity to bring him back! ”

The mother sneered and said, "As far as you still believe in what fierce beasts and gods you have, you haven't gone out to see it!" The outside world has changed! Changes you can't imagine! Our family has been guarding that thing for so many years, your aunt and your sister have been guarding it alone from life to death, if I hadn't run out a few years ago, you would have taken your daughter and my life! ”

Grandpa's eyes suddenly became less bright, as if they were covered with a layer of fog, and his voice was hoarse: "But are you happy?" Didn't you run back again... I'm ready for you never to come back, you know? ”

The mother's eyes turned red, as if she was sighing, "Anyway, I still have a child... There's a thought... Waiting for someone to regret it..."

Zou Yun lightly took advantage of the fact that the two were still talking, and finally walked outside.

He didn't know what his mother and grandfather were talking about, but his eyes were bright and he was looking out - this place was so interesting -

He walked slowly through the dark hole, the air around him so comfortable that the pores of his whole body opened, and the faint light in the distance ahead became brighter and brighter.

He came to a stone statue, carved so delicately as if it were alive, a strange beast, and from here a pleasant breath emanated.

Zou Yun squinted his eyes comfortably, and suddenly seemed to see the stone statue's eyes seem to move, Zou Yun was stunned, touched the face of the stone statue with his small hand, and stared at the eyes carefully-

"Huh? It just seems to have moved? Then he put his hand to those eyes and said with certainty, "You're alive, aren't you?" Big dog who came to deceive people-"

Suddenly! A scorching breath poured out! Golden light burst out from those eyes, Zou Yun didn't hold on for even a second, his small body fell, his skin was as white as paper, and his blood was burned black-

The bulging eyes were opened to the extreme, and a person faintly appeared from the golden light, the tall figure slowly approached, Zou Yun's eyes were blurred, and he finally closed his eyes.

It was as if he was rising and falling in a pool of magma and ice, dark everywhere he went, his body was constantly being tempered and torn apart, and when he opened his eyes, the world changed.

He saw the people of this village, their eyes were colder than ice, he saw his mother, who was originally gentle to him, the corners of her mouth were pursed into a cold line, he blinked, as if he saw the black dust floating on the head of this village, like the flying flotsam floating in the sky after the fire burned the grass and trees, he stretched out his hand, but he could only catch the empty air.

He met more and more cold people in the outside world, evil laughter, cold knives, flashing syringes, dying lives—how funny, how terrifying—how funny and terrifying it was.

He's going to find the source of the coldness.

He returned home and looked at his frightened father, at his stupid and ignorant brother - he walked like a white cat, with harmless eyes open, and walking at a lazy pace, arrogantly.

It was as if something terrible was about to happen—this peaceful courtyard, the things that these foolish men were looking for, could no longer arouse any interest in him